Union Membership

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how globalization, outsourcing, management efforts to depress wages and the loss of entire industries to off-shore operations make jobs less secure and union membership less attractive. The paper then looks at how Wal-Mart actively seeks to prevent the formation of unions. The paper focuses on the issue of foreign outsourcing as a key factor in declining levels of union membership in the US.

From the Paper:

"In the United States, union membership has been declining for some time, with more open shops and with the employees of a number of companies voting not to form a union when asked. The decline was stopped for a time, but it then increased as the result of a number of factors, including the effects of globalization, decisions not to unionize in some shops where there are no clear disagreements between management and employees, damage done in some industries by strike activity, and a newly developing economy in which more people serve as consultants in some industries and do not have direct and permanent employment."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Burn, Timothy. "Unions Halt Decline in Membership." The Washington Times (20 Jan 2000), 1.
• Freeman, Richard and Arthur Ticknor. "Wal Mart Is Not a Business, It's an Economic Disease." Executive Intelligence Review (14 Nov 2003). July 31, 2007. http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3044wal-mart.html.
• Goldman, Abigail and Nancy Cleeland. "An Empire Built on Bargains Remakes the Working World." Los Angeles Times (23 Nov 2003). July 31, 2007. http://www.latimes.com/business/la fi walmart23nov23,1,2729555.story?coll=la home business.
• "Union Members in 2006." News: United Stats Department of Labor (25 Jan 2007). July 31, 2007. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf.

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